{"id":7833,"date":"2012-01-09T08:12:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T13:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2012-01-09T08:12:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T13:12:39","slug":"my-ninth-blogaversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=7833","title":{"rendered":"my ninth blogaversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington, DC) I started blogging on Jan. 9, 2003 and have since published 2,176 posts, almost one per workday. Every year on my blogaversary, I reflect on the year&#8217;s blogging. In 2011, the biggest change was a shift to WordPress, which allowed me to accept comments again and to embed Facebook and Twitter buttons. (I find I have a Pavlovian reaction to &#8220;likes&#8221; and Tweets.)<\/p>\n<p>My favorite posts on my own blog this year\u00a0 included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=7559\">three truths and a question about happiness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=7253\">Seascape<\/a> (poem)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6138\">reform the university to meet the public\u2019s knowledge needs in an age of information overload<\/a> (mainly a video)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6149\">a ten-point plan for civic renewal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6641\">on religion in public debates and specifically in middle school classrooms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=7773\">nine general but contradictory truths<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6596\">snapshots of Black politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6863\">if we are going to put millions in prison, WE should make millions of decisions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=7023\">rebirth without metaphysics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6113\">Robert Lowell at the Indian Killer&#8217;s Grave <\/a>(criticism)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=7175\">Syracuse University: slide or rise?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6138\">what would Jane Addams say?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6441\">nostalgia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also posted more frequently on other blogs in 2011, including: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedemocraticstrategist.org\/strategist\/2011\/03\/if_you_want_citizens_to_trust.php\">If You Want Citizens to Trust Government, Empower Them to Govern<\/a>&#8221; (on the Democratic Strategist blog), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/views\/young-black-and-voting\">&#8220;Young, Black, and Voting&#8221;<\/a> (on the Root), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/peter-levine\">four entries<\/a> on HuffingtonPost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington, DC) I started blogging on Jan. 9, 2003 and have since published 2,176 posts, almost one per workday. Every year on my blogaversary, I reflect on the year&#8217;s blogging. In 2011, the biggest change was a shift to WordPress, which allowed me to accept comments again and to embed Facebook and Twitter buttons. (I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7881,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions\/7881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}